Entrepreneurship

271: A Fast Casual Restaurant with a Transparent, Regenerative Supply Chain with Grant Jones, Co-Founder of Mt. Joy

Grant Jones is the Co-Founder and Chief Agricultural Officer at Mt. Joy, a fast casual restaurant on a mission to accelerate global adoption of regenerative agricultural practices.

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265: Scaling an AgTech SaaS Platform with Aaron Hutchinson, President and Co-Founder of CropTrak

Aaron Hutchinson is the President and Co-Founder of CropTrak. CropTrak brings decades of experience as the leading cloud technology solution to document, share, and analyze an entire supply chain in real-time from source through production.

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263: Commerce for Regional Food Systems with Cole Jones, CEO and Founder of Local Line

Cole Jones is the CEO and Founder of Local Line. Local Line helps farmers, food hubs, and farmers’ markets access new customers and digitize their businesses. Their e-commerce, CRM, inventory and logistics modules enable food producers of all kinds to control their own brand and grow their business on their terms.

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262: AgTech Software Solutions for Farm Accounting with Ian Harley, CEO and Co-Founder of Traction Ag

Ian Harley is CEO and co-founder of Traction Ag, Inc, a cloud-based farm accounting and management software company focused on helping farmers become more profitable and efficient. Ian has more than 25 years of experience in sales and management of AgTech companies, delivering accounting, operations and agronomy software. Prior to Traction Ag, Ian held roles at Granular, Trimble and Farm Works Software.

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261: Established AgTech Investment, Scale, and Distribution with Guillermo Valenzuela, VP of Sales and Marketing at WiseConn

Guillermo Valenzuela is the VP of Sales and Marketing at WiseConn, an agtech company that has developed a technology to measure and control water and other fluids in such diverse areas such as agriculture, mining and hydrology.

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259: AgTech in 2023 Deep Dive with Verdant Robotics Founders Gabe Sibley and Curtis Garner

Founders Gabe Sibley and Curtis Garner are the CEO and COO, respectively, of Verdant Robotics. After coming on the show last year, Gabe and Curtis join this week to give an update on Verdant, including raising their Series A, progress on commercialization, and dealing with a changing economic landscape.

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258: Connecting Brands and Farmers through Outcomes-Based Regenerative Agriculture with Chris Kerston, Co-CEO of Land to Market

Chris Kerston is the Co-CEO of Land to Market, the world’s first outcomes-based verified regenerative sourcing solution. They support brands and producers who are leading the way in giving the land a voice and working to improve soil health, water, biodiversity and ecosystem function.

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256: Food Safety Data Innovation with Erik Westblom, Co-Founder & CEO of Provision

Erik Westblom is the Co-Founder and CEO of Provision, and agtech startup that makes cloud software to streamline food safety and QA. Clients can build simple digital templates that expedite recordkeeping, with automatic schedules, rules, and alerts that increase compliance.

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253: Financing Regenerative Organic Transitions with Brandon Welch, Co-Founder and CEO of Mad Capital

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Brandon Welch is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mad Capital. Beginning in 2019, he formulated the idea for the Perennial Fund and has led all efforts from whitepaper creation to financial modeling, fundraising, portfolio management to building the team. In 2021, he led the close of $10M into the Perennial Fund I from…

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251: Building Tech for Carbon Markets with Troy Carter, CEO and Co-Founder of Earthshot Labs

Troy Carter is the CEO and Co-founder of Earthshot Labs, a startup building the technology and expert guidance to develop and finance nature based carbon projects globally. Their mission is to restore nature at the planetary scale. Seizing the unprecedented opportunity of the carbon market, Earthshot is building the technology and operational capacity to scale carbon credits globally in alignment with regenerative principles.

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